Hongkong, Jan, 24, One of the most bitter struggles in the annals of the Sino-Japanese hostilities was fought on the mountain fastness of Kunlunkwan, northwest Nanning, in which a Japanese detachment wax wiped out by Chinese artillery, was revealed here today by Aispatches from Kweilin, Maj-Gen, Masao Nakamura, command of the 2ist and 23rd detachments (about 6,000 men) and a brigade of heavy artillery was killed in action, it was said, as he had refused to retreat in. the face of in tensive Chinese artillery bombardment. The total enemy casualties were estimated at about 8,000 includ ing the death of the two detachment) commanders and lesser officers, Chinese batteries kept on pounding, the narrow gorges leading to Kunlunkwan and) succeeded in isolating! the Japanese garrison on the, moun tain, who had to depend on their: warplanes to supply them with provisions and even water. All the time:
Chinese mechanized units were' moving up under she direction Lieul-Gen. Cheng Tung-kuo, com~ mander of a mechanized division and now hero of Kunlunkwan,
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